Highlight UninitializedConstant ApplicationController with controllers in a subfolder

I am trying to combine one of my applications with controllers and views into subfolders - one for the marketing site and one for the application itself.

This is what I have:

app/controllers
  application_controller.rb
  ...shit ton of other controllers...

This is what I am going to do:

app/controllers/app
  application_controller.rb
  ...all controllers related to the app itself...

app/controllers/marketing
  ...all controllers related to the marketing site...

The marketing site works just fine because there is no need for authentication, but the application is bombarding b / c devise does not know that application_controller.rb is now in app/controllers/app/application_controller.rb

How can I talk about the location of my controller?

Here are my development routes:

devise_for :users, :skip => [:sessions]
      as :user do
        get 'login' => 'devise/sessions#new', :as => :new_user_session
        post 'login' => 'devise/sessions#create', :as => :user_session
        delete 'logout' => 'devise/sessions#destroy', :as => :destroy_user_session
        get 'logout' => 'devise/sessions#destroy', :as => :destroy_user_session
      end

Part of the stacktrace element:

NameError - uninitialized constant ApplicationController:
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:520:in `load_missing_constant'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:192:in `block in const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:190:in `const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:230:in `block in constantize'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb:229:in `constantize'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb:54:in `constantize'
  devise (2.2.4) app/controllers/devise_controller.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:469:in `block in load_file'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:639:in `new_constants_in'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:468:in `load_file'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:353:in `require_or_load'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:502:in `load_missing_constant'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:192:in `block in const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:190:in `const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:514:in `load_missing_constant'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:192:in `block in const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:190:in `const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:514:in `load_missing_constant'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:192:in `block in const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:190:in `const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:514:in `load_missing_constant'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:192:in `block in const_missing'
  activesupport (3.2.12) lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:190:in `const_missing'
  devise (2.2.4) lib/devise/controllers/helpers.rb:80:in `devise_controller?'
  devise (2.2.4) lib/devise/controllers/helpers.rb:48:in `authenticate_user!'
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@benchwarmer, , ; App::ApplicationController . , , App::ApplicationController ApplicationController. ApplicationController , , , , Marketing::MarketingController marketing/, ApplicationController . , :: names controllers/ , . , . , ApplicationController ( , ), devise.rb initialiser:

config.parent_controller = "App::ApplicationController"

, app/ . , , ApplicationController, , .

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application_controller.rb , . app/controller/app/application_controller.rb,

class App::ApplicationController < ApplicationController
  ...
end

App::ApplicationController class

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